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Psychiatric Research in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

N. N. Wig
N. N. Wig*
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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The progress of psychiatry in India during the last 35 years is indeed impressive. At the time of Independence in 1947, there were just a handful of Indian psychiatrists looking after some 20 odd mental hospitals scattered throughout the country. Colonel M. Taylor (1946), who reviewed the status of mental health services for the Bhore Committee on Health Survey Development in India, ruefully noted the gross inadequacy of mental health services. A major recommendation of the Committee (1946) was to start local training facilities for doctors and other health professionals in the field of mental health. The first landmark was the opening of the All India Institute of Mental Health at Bangalore in 1954. The role of Dr Mayer-Gross, who was closely associated with the development of this Institute in its early years, will be long remembered by many Indian psychiatrists.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 6 , Issue 6 , June 1982 , pp. 102 - 104
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